Tips, tricks, handy info & troubleshooting for great & consistent buttercream.. Buttercream is an art of its own and buttercream cakes can be beautiful, detailed, edgy, inspiring and sometimes just down right jaw dropping. Often people think it's the easier option over other decorating mediums like fondant, but don't be fooled - it's certainly not always the case. I've made this guide on the basics of buttercream to hopefully help with perfecting some areas of buttercream mak

Some helpful tips and tricks I've picked up along my baking & cake decorating journey that make life just that little bit easier - If you lose a bit of eggshell in the cake batter, don't worry if you can't get it out. The egg shell will sink to the bottom during baking so you can just take it off the bottom of the cake once it's baked. _________________ - For a fluffier sponge, beat the butter and sugar by itself for a few minutes before adding the eggs. Then mix the eggs in

These little french cookies really live up to their reputation of being notorious! The love of them is hugely based on their elegant appearance, which can sometimes get really frustrating because they're tricky to perfect but even cracked and slightly hollow shells still taste delicious! I avoided making macarons for quite some time because I found them really intimidating, but eventually my temptation gave in and I started on them. It took a fair amount of recipes, attempts

It's so much more than just work. It's a business and a livelihood, but it's also your life. 2018's rollercoaster has paved the way for a (hopefully) much more balanced and healthy 2019. 2018 saw back-breaking workloads, accomplishments, learning and food for thought - 2019 will bring an improved mindset, a more productive & sane way of working and a lot more fun creating. “we can do anything, but not everything” January 2019 is a purposely quiet month for me. I've taken a st

My old mates Jess & Stu had been engaged for years. I mean, years. People joked that they were going for the world record of longest engagement (turns out that's over 50 years, they didn't make it quite that long!) so I was over the moon, if not slightly surprised, when I had a phone call asking if they could come and talk to me about wedding cakes! “The fact that I was doing it for 2 of our favourite friends just made my soul smile” We chatted over tea and cake samples and t

Cake decorating and creative work almost always leaves me behind the scenes with very little face to face interaction and means you might feel like you're leaving something really important in the hands of someone who's basically a stranger. Let's change that! If you've read my bio on the 'about' page, you're probably pretty clued up with the basics already, but when I decided to start a blog alongside everything, introducing myself seemed like the best point to start from. W